cloaca
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They transform some of those same nitrogen-based compounds into solids known as "urates," which are expelled through a shared opening called the cloaca.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2025
It can “breathe” through its cloaca if it needs to.
From NewsForKids.net ● Feb. 6, 2024
Instead they have a single orifice called a cloaca that is used for defecation as well as reproduction in both males and females.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 16, 2023
He swabbed the mouth and the cloaca and finally drew some blood from a vein in the neck.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 8, 2022
Rectum: a chamber, variable in size and form, just within the anus, in which the excretions are formed or molded for expulsion from the body:= cloaca.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith
One of the new compounds, lolamicin, selectively targeted some "laboratory strains of gram-negative pathogens including Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Enterobacter cloacae," the researchers found.
From Science Daily ● May 29, 2024
At higher doses, lolamicin killed up to 90% of multidrug-resistant E. coli, K. pneumoniae and E. cloacae clinical isolates.
From Science Daily ● May 29, 2024
Finally, we’re testing truly healthy specimens: we’re going out into the environment, and we’re banding birds and swabbing their eyelids and cloacae.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 13, 2021
By itself, evidence that non-avian dinosaurs had cloacae isn’t a huge shocker.
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2020
There exist in the mud of marshes, rivers and cloacae, &c., however, other anaerobic bacteria which decompose cellulose, probably hydrolysing it first and then splitting the products into carbon dioxide and marsh gas.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various
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